yeah, he was talking Amazon, but figured I would throw that out there thinking maybe they ship to him. My only irritation with them is case placement of the buds, left=right and right=left.
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They're not even available on Amazon in the EU, AKG doesn't have them on their local site, AND doesn't offer international shipping. It's honestly weird how far they've gone to make sure that we don't get to buy the N400
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Which ones are you talking about? The HA-FW1000t? If so, then they were third on my list. Ultimately, they were eliminated from contention because there are virtually no reviews for them out there and they don’t appear to have LDAC, which is something I wanted. Wish there were reviews and more info about them though as if they are better than my Pi7 I would most likely sell my Pi7 and grab the JVC.
Might run a search on this thread for them. A few folks had commented on them a while back, which may help you decide.
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Great price at 50 bucks but i actually ended up returning these. The mids were not for me and im too picky, i needed a bit more life on them. for the price you cant beat these though
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See mine just a couple of pages back, for one. They sound on par, if not better than, the Pi7 (IMHO the JVC sounds better), while the functionality and connectivity is, compared to the Pi7, completely hassle-free. It may be the only TWS out there with such meat and substance in the mids - Final Audio came second to that and they have actually explained it somewhere why the vast majority of TWS have bloated bass and scooped mids when compared to their wired counterparts.
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It looks like Samsung/AKG intentionally suppress the visibility of the N400 to make way for the Galaxy Buds Pro and siblings, which are selling like mad everywhere and becoming a must-have for non-headfiers.
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Thanks. Fill t1 lite should be the same size right?
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Thanks! I forgot to specify my budget. Probably something around or lower than fiil t1 lite. I'm mostly using them for listening to podcast or YouTube talks. Only sometime for music
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Unfortunately I can’t answer that since I never had the T1 Lite.
Hey! You probably found the video reviews I made! Thanks for checking them out! I wrote a more detailed review on the Creative Outlier Pro, and personally I do not enjoy them as much. Perhaps my aging ears prefer brighter treble tuning, the Outlier Pro is just too dark to enjoy. While the mic is nothing to shout at, I find that most earbuds using standard SoC have poor mic implementation, except those models that have proprietary mic technology - like Jabra, Technics, etc.
It took me about 6 months and a switch to Android - but I don't dislike the Devialet Geminis anymore.
They are still not 100% able to perform and sound the way I would want them to, but to me the biggest issue with them is probably their limited in-app EQ?
There's nothing I can do in the app to make them sound good which was an issue when using iOS, but using Wavelet I can actually get them sounding pretty good.
What I still don't like is that even with EQ the mids just lack a bit of warmth and presence which affects vocals negatively, it sounds good but I know it could sound better.
The bass, while great for certain genres of electronic music, is also difficult to get any sort of natural sound to when it's more organic instrumentation, there's either a big "oomph" to it which kinda removes the character of the instrument, or if you EQ it down, the sound becomes the worst kind of flat and harsh to my ears.
I also feel like they're very sensitive to EQ in a way, changing the upper mids exposes the treble and makes them sound too sibilant and almost hurt my ears with just a small adjustment.
But with Wavelet they're definitely something like a 7/10 regarding sound, whereas before I thought they were a 5/10 and I could NOT understand why people were talking them up on here. I could see myself changing the EQ a little bit more and getting even better sound out of them too, so we'll see.
They are still not 100% able to perform and sound the way I would want them to, but to me the biggest issue with them is probably their limited in-app EQ?
There's nothing I can do in the app to make them sound good which was an issue when using iOS, but using Wavelet I can actually get them sounding pretty good.
What I still don't like is that even with EQ the mids just lack a bit of warmth and presence which affects vocals negatively, it sounds good but I know it could sound better.
The bass, while great for certain genres of electronic music, is also difficult to get any sort of natural sound to when it's more organic instrumentation, there's either a big "oomph" to it which kinda removes the character of the instrument, or if you EQ it down, the sound becomes the worst kind of flat and harsh to my ears.
I also feel like they're very sensitive to EQ in a way, changing the upper mids exposes the treble and makes them sound too sibilant and almost hurt my ears with just a small adjustment.
But with Wavelet they're definitely something like a 7/10 regarding sound, whereas before I thought they were a 5/10 and I could NOT understand why people were talking them up on here. I could see myself changing the EQ a little bit more and getting even better sound out of them too, so we'll see.
Yeah, I think that sounds reasonable, I'm still mad about it though... like sure, don't sell them in stores here.
But don't prevent me from ordering them from Amazon or your webstore, offer some international shipping if I found myself landing on their website anyhow.
With the recent changes to how much import tax/customs fees you pay from the US to EU I think I would probably not be so inclined to get them anyway (or actually it isn't that bad when buying such a cheap product, but it would land it around $75 if I bought it from the AKG online store), so...
Edit: I can actually order them from Amazon US, but with all the extra fees they would end up being just above $100. I have a gift card on Amazon for $30 that would make it worth the cost, but unfortunately that too is only redeemable in Sweden and not anywhere else. :/ so that's a bummer. No actually, a huge bummer. For some reason even Amazon Germany has seemingly 50% more earbuds and they all have pretty good deals, voucher codes etc. Here in Sweden, I don't think I've ever seen any sort of deals like you can find there, and ordering from Amazon Germany can even be cheaper than ordering from the local store on top of the actual assortment of products being way larger in Germany.
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